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Patient Mason finally gets his chance at Georgia
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) If they gave out an award for the most patient player, Georgia's Hutson Mason would surely be one of the top contenders.
Four years after he signed with the Bulldogs, the quarterback job is finally his.
''You're not really used to being the guy that people come to ask questions or to make important decisions,'' Mason said. ''You feel a little bit more important. To the guys, the coaches, the staff, you're the guy.''
Mason was a backup through most of his career, but he got a head-start on his new role late last season when four-year starter Aaron Murray went down with a knee injury.
In the final two games of a disappointing 8-5 season, Mason gave his teammates plenty of reason to be hopeful. He completed 43 of 75 passes for 619 yards, with three touchdowns and two interceptions.
''It's not a freshman coming in. It's not even a sophomore. It's a guy who's been here for so long,'' receiver Michael Bennett said. ''He knows the offense in and out. He's going to make the right decisions.''
In addition to a new quarterback, here are five things to watch for when the Bulldogs open the season Aug. 30:
EARLY SCHEDULE: For the second year in a row, Georgia will begin the season with two of its toughest games. The Bulldogs host Clemson in the opener at Sanford Stadium, looking to avenge last season's 38-35 defeat in Death Valley, then travel to South Carolina to take on Steve Spurrier and the Gamecocks. That game usually sets the tone in the SEC East, with the winner gaining an early upper hand in the division race. South Carolina has won 18 straight games at Williams-Brice Stadium, where Georgia's last victory came in 2008. If the Bulldogs win their first two games, they could very well be unbeaten heading into the annual showdown with Florida on Nov. 1.
NEW DEFENSIVE BOSS: Jeremy Pruitt takes over as defensive coordinator for Todd Grantham, who left to join Bobby Petrino's staff at Louisville. Pruitt comes to Georgia after one highly successful season as the coordinator at Florida State, which won the national championship and led the country in fewest points allowed. Under Grantham, the Bulldogs had plenty of talented players - many of whom are now on NFL rosters - but developed a reputation for underachieving. Last year, with a very young group, Georgia surrendered at last 30 points in eight of 13 games.
GURLEY FOR HEISMAN: Todd Gurley just missed his second straight 1,000-yard season, despite missing three-plus games with an ankle injury and not being at full strength when he returned. One of the top priorities of the offseason was making sure Gurley was at full strength heading into his third - and possibly final - season in Athens. As a freshman, he rushed for 1,385 yards and 17 touchdowns. He could very well be one of the top contenders for the Heisman Trophy if he stays healthy.
SHAKY SECONDARY: The Bulldogs were burned through the air in plenty of games last season, most notably when they gave up a 73-yard touchdown on fourth-and-18 with 25 seconds left against Auburn, giving the Tigers an improbable 43-38 victory. Now, they've got to replace three regulars. Richt kicked a pair of safeties, Josh Harvey-Clemons and Tray Matthews, off the team for violating team rules. Cornerback Shaq Wiggins followed Grantham to Louisville. Damian Swann is the top returnee, J.J. Green moved over from running back, and several newcomers will get a shot at immediate playing time.
MITCHELL'S HEALTH: Malcolm Mitchell went into last season rated as Georgia's top receiver. But he tore up his right knee in the opener and was done for the year, had to cut short spring practice because of a problem with his left knee, then re-injured his right knee just before the start of preseason practice while doing drills. He's had four knee injuries in all, raising doubts about whether he'll ever get healthy enough to make a big contribution. The Bulldogs are still hopeful he can help the offense before his career is done.
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When the Nasher Sculpture Center began leaking light in September, director Jeremy Strick didn't immediately grasp the gravity of the situation. In the lobby near the cash register, just a few small splotches of light splashed across a travertine wall.
The leak should have been impossible. The Nasher was designed by Renzo Piano, arguably the world's greatest modernist architect, a man famous for reinventing the roof. For the Nasher, he created an ingenious system composed of two parts: a barrel-vaulted roof-cum-ceiling made of 3-inch-thick, 1,200-pound glass panels and, suspended above the glass, a sunscreen of millions of tiny aluminum oculi aimed due north. The sunscreen was designed using the precise longitude and latitude of the Nasher, and it accounts for every hour of the Earth's 365-day trip around the Sun. Standing in the gallery, a visitor looking up and to the south sees what appears to be a solid structure through the glass ceiling. Turning 180 degrees and looking north, though, he sees open sky. The system allows into the museum soft, full-spectrum light that is not only safe for artwork but creates ideal, transcendent viewing conditions. The roof system is patented, and Ray Nasher, who died in 2007, considered it part of the art collection that he gave to Dallas.
Strick saw the light hitting the lobby wall and looked north. Instead of open sky, he saw the new Museum Tower, where construction workers were installing glass panels on the lower levels of the 42-story building. Sunlight was reflecting off that glass and penetrating Piano's roof. Nasher staffers took pictures of the light splotches and talked among themselves about whether they might affect an upcoming exhibit, but no one was ready to sound the alarm.
Then, on a Monday late in the month, the situation turned dire. Workers across the street had been busy over the weekend, having installed glass up to the 23rd floor. Around 2 o'clock, the Sun swung into position and left Strick speechless. Harsh reflections off Museum Tower now flooded the gallery, casting shadows off Rodin's The Age of Bronze and endangering paintings. A canvas by Picasso, Nude Man and Woman, had to be moved immediately.
Strick called Dan Boeckman, one of Museum Tower's four developers. Over the months of construction, Strick had called Boeckman a few times to complain about minor nuisances, trash or cement slurry, for instance, finding its way from the construction site to the Nasher's garden.
"Jeremy, I don't know if I want to take your calls," Boeckman said playfully.
"This one is really serious," Strick said.
In the following months, the problem grew more serious. As Museum Tower's glass facade expanded, its reflections began to cook plants in the Nasher's garden. A study commissioned by the Nasher shows that reflected light is affecting not just the Nasher but also the Dallas Museum of Art, Hunt Oil Tower, and the soon-to-open Klyde Warren Park over Woodall Rodgers. The first two have dealt with the assault by drawing blinds; it remains to be seen how the park, which is closer to Museum Tower, will fare.
How did this happen? How could someone build a $200 million project in the Arts District that is in the process of destroying the very museum it uses in its marketing materials to sell million-dollar condos? Did no one stop to think?
"When you build a tower, you have to be careful about what you do, especially if around you, you have a park," Renzo Piano says. He is known for his polite, unassuming manner, but on the phone from his Paris office, Piano approaches his version of rage. "You know, it's absolutely insane. This is the Arts District. You cannot put in danger a jewel like this. I'm not talking about a jewel in terms of architecture. I'm talking about an institution, a jewel in terms of community life, in terms of quality of life in the town. This is not a private matter. This is the public interest."
And therein lies the richest irony. Not only is Museum Tower destroying a museum, but we the public are paying to do it.
Graham Greene foresaw the reflectivity problem more than a decade before Museum Tower broke ground—in fact, even before the Nasher broke ground. In 1998, he sold a parcel of land in the Arts District to a developer named John Sughrue. Knowing that Sughrue and his three partners planned to build a tower of some sort, Greene had him sign, as a condition of the sale, a covenant designed to protect the tower's neighbors. The specific buyer didn't worry Greene. Sughrue is a well-respected Boston guy who went to Harvard and did real estate deals for Merrill Lynch in New York before moving to Dallas and eventually starting his own development and investment firm, Brook Partners. It's just that Greene is an architect, and architects are always thinking about light. The covenant set a limit on how mirrorlike the glass on Sughrue's building could be in areas where it would reflect sunlight directly on the Meyerson Symphony Center on one side and the nascent Nasher on the other.
Rick del Monte foresaw the reflectivity problem, too. Shortly after Sughrue bought the land, he hired del Monte, a managing partner at The Beck Group, to design Museum Tower. By 1999, del Monte had envisioned a tower with 22 floors, about half the building's current height. But even putting up 22 stories gave del Monte pause.
"What scared me was, I was looking at this thing and saying, 'We're reflecting.' There's no way to avoid that with a glass building," says del Monte, who sought Sughrue's permission before speaking to D Magazine on the record. "When it's 100 degrees outside and we're reflecting sunlight straight down into the garden, that's not going to be a pleasant experience. I was scared. Am I going to put light in there and ruin that roof?"
Two years after del Monte came up with his Museum Tower design, he helped break ground on another high-profile project nearby: the Nasher Sculpture Center. Del Monte says his collaboration with Piano on the museum heightened his sensitivity to any impact Museum Tower might have on the museum. In fact, he had his firm do a light reflectivity study to see what his 22-story building would do to the Nasher.
"It wasn't the most sophisticated study," he says, "but it doesn't take a lot of sophistication."
Del Monte need not have worried about how his building would affect the Nasher. As the four co-developers—Sughrue and Lyle Burgin from Brook Partners, and Boeckman and Greg Greene from Turtle Creek Holdings—hustled to secure financing and repeatedly called for changes to the building's design, the friction became too much for del Monte. "The partnership and I finally reached a difference of opinion on which way the project should go," del Monte says. "I said, 'Go find an architect that you trust.' " Del Monte never showed his light study to Sughrue.
As the four partners struggled to get the building out of the ground, the economic tide turned against them. An announced 2007 groundbreaking had to be quietly canceled when the country plunged into the Great Recession and traditional construction loans dried up—especially for a condo project in an area (downtown, Uptown, Victory Park) that had already spawned nearly 1,800 condo units in the previous decade. But then, seemingly out of nowhere, a savior came to the rescue. The Dallas Police & Fire Pension System, which had earlier made a small investment in the Museum Tower project, announced that it would jump in with both feet and finance the entire thing, all $200 million of it.
The police and fire fund is a $3.24 billion juggernaut that makes all manner of investments all over the world. It has approximately 9,000 participants, meaning cops and firefighters, 3,500 of whom are retired and drawing benefits. The fund's 12-member board includes four city councilmen, but otherwise the fund's managers operate independently of the city of Dallas, which every year contributes to the fund 27.5 percent of every cop and firefighter's salary. In 2010, that amounted to $108 million in taxpayer funds.
In April, the New York Times published a story titled "Pensions Find Riskier Funds Fail To Pay Off," the gist of which was that public pension funds have been taking bigger risks with their investments as they chase higher returns to make up for looming shortfalls. The story was accompanied by a chart showing which pension funds in the country are taking the biggest risks, placing a higher percentage of their assets in alternative investments like private equity, hedge funds, and real estate. The Dallas police and fire fund topped that chart, with 56.3 percent of its assets committed to riskier investments. (On a percentage basis, the fund also pays some of the highest management fees in the industry, spending, for example, 20 times what the Texas Municipal Retirement System spends. And Texas Municipal produced a much higher rate of return over the last five years—7.6 percent compared with 4.3 percent—without committing a single dollar to the same risky investments.)
The police and fire fund's investment in Museum Tower raised eyebrows across the country, and in June 2010, the Wall Street Journal ran a lengthy story about it. Jim Neil, a real estate investment banker with Churchill Capital Company, worked on behalf of the police and fire fund to find a bank brave enough to make the loan. Asked to describe that loan, Neil says: "It was a very unusual deal at a very unusual time."
No one is in a better position than Richard Tettamant to explain how the deal got done. He has worked at the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System for 30 years, rising to administrator, the fund's top executive. Tettamant is a large, affable man with a mustache that's going gray. When I ask about the $200 million investment, he wants to know where I got the dollar figure. I tell him I saw it in the paper.
"They don't have a clue," he says, leaning back in his chair at a large conference table in the police and fire fund's modern office. "Okay, the total construction budget for the tower is about $200 million, but we haven't invested $200 million. The Morning News has had it wrong every time they've reported it."
When I ask how much the fund does have invested, he says $100,000. I repeat the figure to make sure I heard it correctly.
"That's all we have spent," he says slowly, deliberately. "The bank that we borrowed the money from is financing the tower."
For a second, I become disoriented and feel like I'm in a scene from Nineteen Eighty-Four. Tettamant is duckspeaking doubleplusgood about how the fund borrowed money and yet still got the bank to pay for the building. So I ask him: who is on the hook if the project fails?
"Oh, the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System," he says.
When the police and fire fund got involved, the Museum Tower project changed in two important ways. First, with an earlier commitment of $32 million, the fund pushed Sughrue and his partners to super-size the tower, doubling the height and cost of Rick del Monte's initial design. This was not a business decision, Tettamant says; it was strictly an aesthetic one.
"What we said was, 'We need a piece of artwork to be in the Arts District. We need that building to look like something people will appreciate and love,' " he says, never once mentioning the increased risk.
When it took charge, the police and fire fund brought in a consultant from California named Bill Criswell. It was a homecoming of sorts. Criswell and his wife, Sheri, moved to Dallas in 1974 and once had seats at the head table of the real estate party. Their firm, Criswell Development Company, tapped high-net-worth private investors who lived overseas to build Hyatt Regency hotels in Austin, Denver, and Houston, and The Regency Center and Spectrum Center in Dallas. Those projects flourished.
But then came his biggest deal, the I.M. Pei-designed Allied Bank Tower at Fountain Place. Like Museum Tower, it was an iconic, skyline-defining project. The 60-story tower opened in October 1986, just in time for the S&L crisis, and it sank into foreclosure six months later. Sole owners of the project, the Criswells sunk with it, losing the hotels and office buildings in which they'd retained ownership stakes. Criswell says he spent the next five years negotiating workouts on his properties, limiting his lenders' losses as best he could. At the end of
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By pedigree and intent Dark Passage is a film noir, but in all fairness it's a confused movie with a gimmick that can't hide a pile of foolish coincidences and absurd plotting. Even weirder, the magnetic attraction of the Bogart-Bacall duo makes it eminently enjoyable. Functioning only as a mindless romance, it's no endorsement for writer-director Delmer Daves.
I've got a high-toned film book that puts Dark Passage on a list with King Kong, Peter Ibbetson, Duck Soup and Night of the Hunter as pre-eminent examples of Surrealist theory. 1 The author assigns the film's complete lack of coherence and narrative logic to a surrealist origin, an absurd idea that becomes even moreso when one tries to imagine overachieving Warners company man Delmer Daves as a subversive artist.
Dark Passage doesn't need artsy help to make us scratch our heads. It breaks so many rules of logic and good plotting, it would appear to be assembled by a bad computer told to place 10 noir clichés in random order:
Irene Jansen is personal friends with the evil Madge Rapf, who sent Vincent Parry to prison for life. Coincidentally, her own father was convicted of a similar crime. Coincidentally, she's sort of involved with Rapf's husband, Bob, a similar entanglement to the one that got Parry in trouble. Coincidentally, Irene just happens to be painting on the same road where Vincent escapes. Conveniently, she's wealthy and lives alone in an apartment where Vincent can hide.
Although we don't see him for almost a full hour because of an elaborate subjective point-of-view experiment lifted from The Lady in the Lake, we know Vincent is Humphrey Bogart because we hear his voice. So when we see a picture of a man who doesn't look like him, it doesn't add up. There's also no surprise when the bandages later come off to reveal Bogie. So why hide him, and why the POV gimmick?
Ancillary characters stack up rapidly, as in a radio show. 2 Parry's picked up by a creep who immediately suspects him and later tries to blackmail him. Vincent's best friend is a swell guy willing to risk a prison sentence to harbor him. Naturally, he has 'potential victim' written on his chest in neon letters. The first cabbie Vincent rides with turns out to be the top connection for needy criminals in the Bay Area - asking nothing in return, and whisking him off to a plastic surgeon eager to work in the dead of night.
In the middle of this insane whirlpool is acting as good as can be found in movies of the day. Once he's finally on camera Bogie is charming, and costar Bacall never strikes an unconvincing note no matter how ridiculous things get. Perhaps this contrast was what the Surrealist book reacted to. Agnes Moorehead is terrific as a shrewish monster and holds up her end of the story beautifully. As an insane crime soap opera this is so well done that our thoughts do turn to the possibility that it was some kind of intellectual exercise on the part of Delmer Daves - to prove that a movie could make absolutely no sense and still play on a screen.
The physical details are even stranger. Because of one remark overheard in a diner, Vincent becomes the subject of scrutiny by a nosy detective who claims the right to demand a total accounting for who he is and what he's up to. But Vincent is able to walk up and down the steep Frisco hills for hours, in the midst of a citywide manhunt, his faced wrapped up like Im-Ho-Tep, and nobody takes any notice of him. (spoiler) Vincent's argument with blackmailer Baker (a reptilian Clifton Young) includes a fight and gunplay at Fort Point. It's a very public place but Vince is able to drive away unnoticed after leaving Baker dead. (bigger spoiler) And the demise of Agnes Moorehead is as silly and convenient an 'accident' as ever happened in a movie. 3
With all the logic of a soap opera, Dark Passage ends with Bogie unaccountably well-to-do in an unnamed South American country represented by one very chic oceanside nightclub. Bacall meets him there and they dance to their favorite tune. Most real noir pictures find substantially less pleasant ends for their lovers; the earlier Nora Prentiss is incredibly bleak, and poor Kent Smith in that one didn't mean to hurt anybody. Vincent Parry is morally entangled in at least four deaths - don't forget that his adultery contributed to his original wife's murder. He's no Richard Kimball, not by a long shot. 4
So perhaps the ending is surreal - Lauren and Humphrey reunite in an exotic fantasyland, and this tale of murder and deceit ends up happily ever after.
I haven't read hardboiled author David Goodis' original story, but I did read his Nightfall, which was a complicated series of nightmarish twists and turns in urban and rural settings, with an innocent man trapped between the law and ruthless criminals. Jacques Tourneur made it into an okay film in 1957 that I never liked much. Perhaps the usually dependable Daves tried to simplify and star-sanitize this similar story, and it turned into a mish-mosh.
The funny thing is that Dark Passage is eminently enjoyable, from its impressive location shooting to the undeniable attraction of its stars. One laughs at the end, but it's entertaining too.
Warners' DVD of Dark Passage is immaculate and bursting with a restored picture and punchy sound that will make old murky 16mm TV prints a lost memory.
For extras, there's a Looney Tunes short where Bogie and Bacall make guest appearances. The short docu Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers features the usual critical suspects who analyze the film and its stars. Dark Passage was reportedly a flop. It's too bad that studios were so sensitive then to romantic pairings in movies, as the romantic angle in this one works, and I'm sure audiences would have come back for more of the duo.
The critics make a case for Bogart and Bacall's HUAC problems being the prime reason for the film's failure, but it doesn't wash with this reviewer. Sure, people who read the papers might have been exposed to political criticism of the stars, but the overboiled Dark Passage was more likely than not rejected as silly by audiences on its own merits, and word of mouth killed it.
It doesn't matter now, as the film is a lot of fun to watch. And don't forget the terrific noir artwork on the DVD snapper cover ... I wish I had a poster of it.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, Dark Passage rates: Movie: Excellent Video: Excellent Sound: Excellent Supplements: Theatrical trailer, featurette Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers, cartoon Slick Hare Packaging: Snapper case Reviewed: November 15, 2003
1. Matthews, J. H. Surrealism and American Feature Films Twayne, Boston 1979 Return
2. It's more like a radio show than just that. People constantly fill in the blanks verbally as if we can't see what's happening, telling each other what they see outside windows, etc. Return
3. Lots of reviews call Moorehead's window plunge a suicide, when it's clearly accidental. I wonder if the new reviewers just got their plot synopsis from the reference book Film Noir: A Reference to the American Style where the mistaken suicide idea seems to have originated. Return
4. Nora Prentiss - now there's a weird film noir with a nasty kick at the end. It's also said to have been cut by more than half an hour at the last moment, although it's hard to see how it could be any longer than it is. Catch it on TCM sometime, it's essential Ann Sheridan viewing. Return
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Thus spoke Pope John Paul II on August 15, 1993, to the young people gathered in Denver for World Youth Day. The United States is about to hear a strong echo of that message, for young and old alike to proclaim the Gospel of Life in public places from coast to coast.
This new vigor is being unleashed thanks to a Supreme Court victory that came about on February 26, 2003 in the Scheidler vs. NOW case.
Joseph Scheidler, Director of the Pro-life Action League, has inspired activists for decades to take the pro-life message into the squares of cities, towns and villages. He has done so with such success that it has cut into the business profits of the killing centers. In the eyes of the National Organization for Women, this could not be tolerated. So in 1986, they took the activists to court, and tried to use the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) statutes against them. RICO laws were crafted to stop organized crime and drug trafficking, not the peaceful, non-violent intervention of those who are trying to save lives.
But this year, in an 8 to 1 ruling, the court said that RICO cannot be used against the pro-life activists, even if their activities deprived the abortion mills of business.
The favorable ruling, however, is only part one of the solution. Part two is that grassroots activists take up the mandate of the Court and the Pope, and fully utilize their First Amendment rights by organizing public prayer vigils, picketing, leafleting, street preaching, sidewalk counseling, and other demonstrations and marches from coast to coast.
The call to do exactly this will be issued at the Bring America Back to Life rally and convention in Chicago on Saturday, June 7. Frankly, I wouldn't miss it for the world, and I hope you don't, either. It will display the spirit of the Acts of the Apostles, where you read that the apostles did not sit around hoping people would come to them to be converted. Instead, they went to the people, who did not even know they needed the Gospel. Moreover, the apostles did not plan their activities in a risk-averse way, trying at every turn to avoid unpopularity, rejection, fines, or jail. Rather, they were impelled by the truth of Christ, and ready to pay any price for proclaiming it.
The First Amendment protects our ability to challenge the Culture of Death and its spokespersons. The law cannot forbid our speech just because others may find it disagreeable, offensive, or upsetting. Let's use this tool without fear as we carry out the Pope's words, "Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known."
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Kenai Peninsula College seeks interested community members to apply to serve on its College Council as the southern Kenai Peninsula at-large representative. The borough-wide council serves as an advisory board to the college director and advocates for the interests of the college to the community and legislature; members serve 3-year terms. People interested in serving should submit a letter of interest and resume by Jan. 18 to: College Director, Kenai Peninsula College, 156 College Road, Soldotna AK 99669. Interested individuals with questions can call (907) 262-0318.
The Kachemak Bay Campus is closed for the holiday break from Dec. 24 – Jan. 1.
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THE WORLD'S BIGGEST extraterrestrial explorer, NASA's Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars today on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life.
It will take eight-and-a-half months for Curiosity to reach Mars following a journey of 354 million miles.
An unmanned Atlas V rocket hoisted the rover, officially known as Mars Science Laboratory, into a cloudy late morning sky. A Mars frenzy gripped the launch site, with more than 13,000 guests jamming the space center for NASA's first launch to Earth's next-door neighbor in four years, and the first send-off of a Martian rover in eight years.
NASA astrobiologist Pan Conrad, whose carbon compound-seeking instrument is on the rover, had a shirt custom made for the occasion. Her bright blue, short-sleeve blouse was emblazoned with rockets, planets and the words, "Next stop Mars!"
Conrad jumped, cheered and snapped pictures as the rocket blasted off a few miles away. So did Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roger Wiens, a planetary scientist in charge of Curiosity's rock-zapping laser machine, called ChemCam.
Wiens shouted "Go, Go, Go!" as the rocket soared. "It was beautiful," he later observed, just as NASA declared the launch a full success.
The one-ton Curiosity — as large as a car — is a mobile, nuclear-powered laboratory holding 10 science instruments that will sample Martian soil and rocks, and analyze them right on the spot. There's a drill as well as the laser-zapping device.
It's "really a rover on steroids," said NASA's Colleen Hartman, assistant associate administrator for science. "It's an order of magnitude more capable than anything we have ever launched to any planet in the solar system."
The primary goal of the $2.5 billion mission is to see whether cold, dry, barren Mars might have been hospitable for microbial life once upon a time — or might even still be conducive to life now.
No actual life detectors are on board; rather, the instruments will hunt for organic compounds.
Radiation measure
Curiosity's seven-foot arm has a jackhammer on the end to drill into the Martian red rock, and the 7-foot mast on the rover is topped with high-definition and laser cameras. No previous Martian rover has been so sophisticated or capable.
With Mars the ultimate goal for astronauts, NASA also will use Curiosity to measure radiation at the red planet. The rover also has a weather station on board that will provide temperature, wind and humidity readings; a computer software app with daily weather updates is planned.
The world has launched more than three dozen missions to the ever-alluring Mars, which is more like Earth than the other solar-system planets. Yet fewer than half those quests have succeeded.
Just two weeks ago, a Russian spacecraft ended up stuck in orbit around Earth, rather than en route to the Martian moon Phobos.
"Mars really is the Bermuda Triangle of the solar system," Hartman said. "It's the death planet, and the United States of America is the only nation in the world that has ever landed and driven robotic explorers on the surface of Mars, and now we're set to do it again."
Curiosity's arrival next August will be particularly hair-raising.
Accurate landing
In a spacecraft first, the rover will be lowered onto the Martian surface via a jet pack and tether system similar to the sky cranes used to lower heavy equipment into remote areas on Earth.
Curiosity is too heavy to use air bags like its much smaller predecessors, Spirit and Opportunity, did in 2004. Besides, this new way should provide for a more accurate landing.
Astronauts will need to make similarly precise landings on Mars one day.
Curiosity will spend a minimum of two years roaming around Gale Crater, chosen as the landing site because it's rich in minerals. Scientists said if there is any place on Mars that might have been ripe for life, it would be there.
"I like to say it's extraterrestrial real estate appraisal," Conrad said with a chuckle earlier in the week.
The rover — 10 feet long and 9 feet wide — should be able to go farther and work harder than any previousMars explorer because of its power source: 10.6 pounds of radioactive plutonium. The nuclear generator was encased in several protective layers in case of a launch accident.
NASA expects to put at least 12 miles on the odometer, once the rover sets down on the Martian surface.
This is the third astronomical mission to be launched from Cape Canaveral by NASA since the retirement of the venerable space shuttle fleet this summer. The Juno probe is en route to Jupiter, and twin spacecraft named Grail will arrive at Earth's moon on New Year's Eve and Day.
NASA hails this as the year of the solar system.
Read more and watch videos of the Curiosity rover in action >


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As far as I understand it, it is a big system file that apparently controls a big part of the phone. I am interested because I wanted to do some themeing and so far I had edited SystemUI.apk, but if I ever ran into any problems (and being a beginner that was bound to happen) nothing seemed to happen other than the fact that I lost my notification bar.
Problem is, I have heard of some people who touched framework-res.apk and they wound up not being able to even boot their phone. I decided before carelessly poking around with something that could potentially soft brick my phone, I would like to learn a bit more about it.
So what exactly is framework-res.apk? What is it used for? What does it control? Where do we visually see its use? What could potentially happen to my phone should something go amiss with framework-res? Anything else I should know before poking my nose where it shouldn't be?


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Quantum Of Solace
The film kicks off in the middle of a car chase and doesn't much slow down or pause for breath for the next hour and three-quarters. Bond is still mourning Vespa, the girl he loved and who betrayed him in Casino Royale, but he's hardened and no longer the callow ingenue. Just as well, as he has a lot of ground to cover, and much action to survive: as far as I could tell, he sat down about twice and never slept (even on a trans-Atlantic red-eye he spent the entire flight standing at the bar in First Class, sipping martini cocktails). The action ranges across Europe, to Haiti and Bolivia, replete with car chases, boat chases, plane chases, and a lot of free running across rooftops, the stunts all good, and never marred by obvious CGI. As well as the traditional transcontinental locations and supersmart Wallpaper* hotels, there's the usual high tech trickery, this time involving turning mobile phones into tracking devices, and a briefing using a smart desktop, and Bond gets to sleep with a girl with the requisite kooky name (that's revealed only at the very end, one of the many nice touches in this smart production) and hook up with a tough and smart girl (Olga Kurylenko) whose personal mission parallels his; in one of the few quiet, human moments in the movie, he instructs her on how to make sure she doesn't mess up the kill she has to make. The plot is, of course, preposterous, but the story keeps everything moving so quickly it doesn't much matter. Speed, not thought, is the essence of these things.
French star Mathieu Amalric very good as the popeyed, snaggletoothed yet corrosively charming villain, part of a secret international organisation corrupting third-world countries for profit. Judi Dench is as usual very fine as M, and Daniel Craig, thoroughly inhabiting the part, has refined his blue-eyed Mr Death stare so it can now burn through a couple of inches of steel. His Bond is tougher than ever, and with little time to waste on quips or hanging about in night clubs or casinos, and has to be restrained from killing just about anyone who gets in his way. In short, this is a smart, tough Bond working in an Age of Terror where no motives are pure. Only a few people get out alive; no one gets out unscarred.


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What if federal, state, and local social programs were to shut down? How well would Presbyterian and evangelical churches be able to handle such a crisis? It would not be a pretty picture! Sadly, I might thank the Lord for the existence of liberal churches and parachurch organizations if such a scenario unfolded. The sad fact is that Orthodox Presbyterian churches are poorly positioned to identify social trends, blueprint a comprehensive plan for a ministry of mercy, and implement such service as commanded by our Lord.
What do you do with an affluent, suburban church whose social and economic discernment is sheltered by relative prosperity and stability? No one is doing crack cocaine at the corner. No one is spray painting the church walls. Guns are not sounding in the middle of the night. The divine blessing of localized peace and prosperity is quite tranquilizing and soothing. Before you know it, the church is asleep!
Oh, on occasion there is a knock at the door by a vagrant, or the Joneses are having financial problems again (I sure wish they would learn how to budget!), or widow Johnson needs her car's fan belt replaced. And before you know it, the year has gone by, the deacon's report is due, the congregation sees that they have an active diaconal ministry which soothes the conscience for one more year, and so the deacons tacitly adopt a reactive ministry plan once again.
An OP congregation is typically well attuned to assisting the needs of those within the household of faith. The warm, covenantal family atmosphere of the church fuels this diaconal concern for her members. But perhaps most OP churches are doing just enough in the vital area of serving their families to be lulled into a sleepy, reactive ministry plan. Yet holiness and godliness demand action, struggle, wrestling, training, and watching. Without the Word of God as our guide and the resulting vision from its application, God's people will fail.
As has been typical of my own experience as a deacon, one deacon I interviewed recently said this about his ministry: "There is no vision statement written down, but there might be one. I have not seen or heard of one.... One thing that we try is to get to know people in the congregationhave good personal relationships with the people so that when needs do arise it is not a cold thing. That is one of our goals, I think."
Why do many of our churches not have a mercy ministry plan? Sometimes it is just plain hard to find needs to be met. This sounds odd, doesn't it, in our world where the newspaper and the evening news drown us with the national and global social crises of the day. For some reason, we rarely meet these problems in the drive to work, at the office, in the neighborhood, or at home.
It just pounds us on TV! Maybe there isn't such a big problem, after all. Look, I am doing just fine. If these TV people can't get on well enough, then it's their own fault! That is just one way that a deacon can cruise through life, slap together the same annual deacon's budget (adjusted for inflation, of course), and execute the same old deacons' plan.
Deacons do well enough responding to family needs in the church (our wives would kill us if we let that slip!), but there is little pep in their vision for extending the mercy of Christ, little bounce in their diaconal walk, little sense that the gospel must go forth in deeds of kindness or the church will collapse, the community will topple, and the judgment of God will rain down from heaven.
In effect, we have too often believed the lie that there is no crisis. There can't be. We have looked and looked, we have brainstormed for hours, and we can't find anything worthwhile to do. Sadly, we are saying "Peace and safety" when destruction is coming. The climactic zenith of our social and moral decay is drawing nearGod's judgment! This is Paul's theme in his first letter to the Thessalonians. Paul reminds believers, "So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled" (1 Thess. 5:6).
What do you do with the affluent church that is cash rich, but time impoverished? Simply put, middle-class professionals with families are squeezed for time. It is a marvel that those who are deacons can even set aside three hours a month to decide how to spend their tiny budget and paltry time. Given this scenario, I can guarantee you one thing. No mercy plan means no mercy ministry! The unknown poet put it best: "Some men die in battle; some men die in flames; but most men perish inch by inch playing little games." A concrete mercy vision and plan are essential for a vital ministry in a time-squeezed church. If you do not have one, you are surrendering the gospel to the demon of the status quo!
Have you ever wondered why your diaconal budgets are so low? Well, what would the deacons do with more money if they had it? Probably save it as a nest egg or spend it on stuff. Stuff! Not on a pressing vision shared by the entire congregation. Not on a fledgling new ministry bathed in expectant, corporate prayer for months. Not on a sorely needed project to prevent the community from toppling. Just plain old stuff.
I am sorry to say that for my money, I would take my chances with the local Pregnancy Crisis Center or other community ministry. Why? Is it because I am ignorant of the biblical basis for the diaconate? Is it because I have a low view of the church? I pray not. But these people make my pulse race when they tell me their story. They know how much money they need and when they need it for a vital kingdom ministry to be carried out. They have a vision! They have a plan! Not just for this year, but for the long term, until by God's grace this need is fully met. Have you ever felt this way at your congregational meeting? At a deacons' meeting?
Before we chide the liberal church and parachurch organizations, let us clean up our own house. Every diaconate in the OPC needs to develop a vision of, and a plan for, its ministry.
As we have said, this may not be easy to do if you are comfortably nestled in suburbia. In Ministries of Mercy, pastor and author Tim Keller recognizes this and offers an excellent stimulus for deacons wrestling with both the theology and the practice of mercy ministries. But don't let reading more books hinder your ministry plan. Don't throw a book at a problem and hope it goes away. Instead, go about the work of developing a biblical, exciting mercy plan for your church and community. And dream big dreams. If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
Orthodox Presbyterian deacons are hard workers! I haven't met a lazy one yet. In fact, our entire church is characterized by suffering and laboring for the whole counsel of God. As a relative youngster, I am reluctant to spend a lot of time telling tenured deacons how to work harder. My generation has lots to learn about hard work and an honest day's wage. If I could say one thing, though, I would say, "Don't work harderwork smarter." If my dad wanted to send my sisters to piano lessons, he got a second job to pay for it. To send them to ballet lessons, he dug ditches. Needless to say, my dad is now a very tired grandfather.
Some of the challenges I have issued sound like lots of work, don't they? All this brainstorming, planning, scheduling, implementing, and reviewing sounds like a lot of work without much to show for it. This is not a challenge to work harder! It is a challenge to identify some pressing, meaningful social and community needs, to make plans to address them in the name of Christ, and to monitor your success while sharing that vision with a roused congregation.
A clearly articulated vision and a sensible ministry plan will stir the heart and imagination of God's people. You will find more fervent prayers, additional giving, more volunteers, a heightened sense of the gospel's power, and growth within the church of Christ. Under these circumstances, work becomes a delight, an opportunity to rejoice in bringing in the sheaves. Furthermore, the number of shoulders to share this kingdom work will grow in numbers and in energy!
In Acts 6, the church was having a big dispute. Certain widows were apparently being discriminated against in the distribution of food. With Christian friends like these, who needs enemies? But the church was pumped up by the vision and plan of the first seven deacons, who tackled the problem head on. And do you know what happened? "So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith" (Acts 6:7). These deacons had a goal and a plan. My, how the church rejoiced over their success!
Mr. Igo is a licentiate of the Presbytery of Ohio and a former deacon at Grace OPC in Columbus, Ohio. Reprinted from New Horizons, March 1998.
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By Ross Peake
ASIO has hit back against claims that Chinese company Huawei, the Raiders' sponsor, was excluded from the national broadband network for political reasons.
The spy agency's head, David Irvine, told Senate estimates ASIO's advice to the government was ''based solely on security matters''.
He said the agency was carefully monitoring international developments regarding the company.
He was questioned by Liberal Cory Bernardi on the security assessment that resulted in the federal government banning the Chinese telecommunications giant from participating in multi-billion dollar contracts for the NBN.
Recently the United States House intelligence committee warned against long term security risks in doing business with Huawei.
The Canadian government has also indicated it will exclude the company from construction of a secure communications network because of possible security risks.
During the estimates hearing late on Tuesday, Senator Bernardi said it was reported Huawei Canadian spokesman Scott Bradley had suggested Australia's decision to bar Huawei from supplying the NBN was made for political rather than security reasons.
''He suggested that Australia was trying to 'cosy up to the United States right now in terms of our trade relationship','' Senator Bernardi said.
''Likewise, when asked about the comments made by Australia and the US about the security threat posed by Huawei, their Australian director of corporate affairs, Jeremy Mitchell, last week tweeted that it's all politics.
''Can I ask, is there any truth to the suggestion ASIO's advice to the government was based on anything other than potential security implications?''
Mr Irvine replied: ''ASIO's advice to government on this and other matters is based solely on security matters.''
Mr Irvine said he had not read the full report from the US House intelligence committee.
Asked if ASIO would expect to have access to the classified version of the report, Mr Irvine said: ''I would not be able to answer that.''
He said he did not believe the formation of an Australian board for Huawei would necessarily impact on ASIO's consideration of the security issues.
Senator Bernardi said yesterday: ''Given the suggestions from Huawei spin doctors that ASIO had a political agenda rather than a security one, I think it's important for our peak security body to be able to put their views on the record, to respond to the claims that have been made.''
Former Howard government minister Alexander Downer, who is a director of Huawei Australia, said he had not seen or heard any evidence of wrongdoing or risk posed by Huawei. ''The US congressional committee has failed to provide any in its report,'' he wrote in a newspaper report yesterday.
''It is merely supposition that Chinese companies in the telecommunications area are some sort of a threat to security.''
Mr Downer said the committee's inquiry focused on two companies that are headquartered in China, Huawei and ZTE, but turned a blind eye to the other major companies that are manufacturing, assembling and programming in China.
''Does the committee really expect us to believe that if the Chinese government were inclined to put vulnerabilities into the telco infrastructure, they would use only Huawei or ZTE?'' he said. ''This is not a Dick Smith 'buy local' campaign.
''If they did pursue such methods, they could just as easily use Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Ericsson or Nokia Siemens equipment as well.
''Alcatel-Lucent's main Asian manufacturing plant is only a few kilometres down the road from Huawei's Shanghai campus.
''In fact, Alcatel-Lucent's factory is a joint venture, half-owned by the Chinese government.
''If the risk is real and China is the source of that risk, as outlined in the US report and the blocking of Huawei from the Australian national broadband network, then do they truly expect us to believe that these factories and workplaces are somehow not vulnerable?''
Huawei has previously claimed Australia could be in breach of its international trade obligations if it banned the company, while it branded the US Congress report "China bashing".


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You know how there are people who you start chatting with and you just immediately feel connected to them as if you've known them for a long time? Well I was fortunate enough to get to e-meet Teresa Coates recently and I was immediately just taken with her and her story.
Several years ago, Teresa and her two kids packed up and went to Vietnam. During their time there, they spent some time volunteering at the Tam Ky orphanage. And now Teresa has launched a charity handmade clothing drive for that orphanage. So when she asked me if I could lend a hand with some sewing, I dove head first into my fabric stash and gleefully started sewing like a crazy person. But before I share what I made, here's a bit of back story from Teresa:
When I volunteered, along with my two children, to spend a couple of months working with orphans in Vietnam, I had no idea just how much I would grow to love those children. Despite the language chasm between us, we developed friendships and an affection that is incomparable. As a mom, it was amazing to watch my kids with them--Audrey would hold the babies and feed them formula, while Stuart was the one the young boys flocked to for a game of chase. Six years and two return visits later, the situation at the orphanages has not improved. The state-run facilities are desperately in need of additional items that cannot be purchased with the limited funds provided by the government. International adoptions were shut down and children continue to be left at the orphanages.
Along with efforts to publish our story about moving to Vietnam, I want to provide yet again for these kids. Each time we've returned we have been able to bring along clothes, food, shoes, and toys, as well as cash to pay for fruit, yogurt and milk (all are considered non-essential so not supplied by the government).
As part of our Pho for Three fundraiser, I'm heading up a charity sewing drive to get quality, handmade items to these kids I love so much. There are five things, in particular, that I'm asking for: shorts, dresses, messenger bags, pencil pouches and simple diapers. Depending on your time, sewing abilities, spare fabric, etc. you can pick whichever one you want to make. With more than 100 kids ranging from newborn to 17 years old, there's plenty of opportunity to help.
Here's a post that outlines the specifics of the Sewing for Orphans project.
If you're unable to sew something you can also donate to her fundraiser here.
Nearly the moment I finished chatting with Teresa about the project, I got to sewing and had such a great time making up a bunch of goodies for the kids at Tam Ky.
I started with pencil cases.
I used the boxy zippered pencil case tutorial by Annie Get Your Glue Gun here.
And then came the shorts from a tutorial by Dana Made It. (Although I'm convinced that I printed out the pattern incorrectly because the shorts are seriously tiny. I'm guessing 12 months max instead of the toddler sizes that I was anticipating. They're still adorable and I'm sure they can be used but if you make shorts, you might need to make something larger. Teresa can let you know what she's still lacking in terms of sizes.)
And then these flouncy skirts, also from a Dana Made it tutorial. (Ridiculously easy to make and I kinda wish I was a 5 year old girl so I could wear one too!)
And then of course tiny tank tops and t-shirts with matching appliques were a necessity.
Final tally: 12 pencil cases, 7 shorts, 6 skirts, 16 t-shirts and tanks. All boxed up and winging their way to Teresa where she'll be collecting all the handmade treasures before they're sent over to the kiddos at Tam Ky in Vietnam.
If you can lend a hand in any way, again here's more info on the Tam Ky project here.


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Iran Policy Committee
The Iran Policy Committee (IPC), formed in February 2005 by Raymond Tanter, is a pressure group focused on influencing US government policy towards Iran. It is made up of former White House, State Department, Pentagon and CIA officials. [1] IPC has been compared to the Iraqi National Congress and has even shared an address, accountants, and some staff with multiple organizations that either fronted for or had direct ties to the INC "even sharing staff members with those groups.[2] IPC openly endorses what it refers to "third alternative" for US policy towards Iran: "Keep open diplomatic and military options, while providing a central role for the Iranian opposition to facilitate democratic change."[1].
Views and activities
On the grounds that Iran poses a threat to US National Security, the IPC advocates that the US should favor "regime change" through a process of "destabilization" and "coercive diplomacy", while keeping the full military option open. Suggested policies include economic blockades, military support of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) or the MEK, and precision strikes of selected targets within Iran. They describe this as "providing a central role for the Iranian opposition to facilitate regime change". [3] In a speech to a rally on 19 January 2006 organized by Council for Democratic Change in Iran, an MeK front group, Tanter said the revolution in Iran will not be one of the nonviolent "color revolutions" likes those in central Europe. "To say that the only route in Iran is the non-violent route of Gandhi and King is to misunderstand the nature of the theocratic regime in Tehran.[4]."
According to Rightweb:
- Launched in 2005, IPC's main modus operandi is to hold a press conference, typically at the National Press Club, at which it releases the findings of its latest "white paper." On January 11, 2007, a day after President George W. Bush announced his "surge" strategy for Iraq, IPC held a press conference at the National Press Club to announce the release of its latest paper, "How to Make the Surge Work: A Complementary Political-Military Plan for Iraq." ...Less than a week earlier, on January 5, 2007, IPC held a press conference at the National Press Club at which it claimed to provide convincing evidence of Tehran's role in fomenting violence in Iraq. Under the headline "New Intelligence Points to Iran Destabilizing Iraq," the conference showcased the work of Alireza Jafarzadeh...IPC's Tanter followed up Jafarzadeh's remarks to push for the involvement of the MEK in U.S. operations in the region.
- Earlier IPC white papers on Iran have included: "U.S. Policy Options for Iran and Iranian Political Opposition," September 13 2005; "U.S. Policy Options for Iran: Sham Elections, Disinformation Campaign, Human Rights Abuses, and Regime Change," June 30, 2005; "U.S. Policy Options for Iran," February 10, 2005; and "What Makes Iran Tick," May 10, 2006.[5]
When the IPC held a press conference in Washington in September with MEK representatives to reveal what it called a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear site near the Iranian city of Qazvin, US officials expressed caution considering the groups unreliable record:
- But the source of the information — the MEK is listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department — and the group's affiliation and promotion by U.S. neoconservatives pushing hard-line policies towards Iran are reasons for skepticism. Both the State Department and independent experts have raised several alarms about the reliability of the MEK's claims.
- While in the past, official U.S. sources have been willing to confirm information made public by the MEK, the State Department today told Fox News it would "study" the information, which included satellite images, and noted the MEK's mixed record. "The MEK has made pronouncements about Iranian facilities in the past — some accurate, some not," State spokesman P.J. Crowley told Fox.[6]
A Neocon Dissent
While the organization does not shy away from endorsing violence to achieve regime change in Iran, they have been criticized by neocons for not being hardline enough. The neocon hawk Michael Rubin has criticized them for working with the "Monsters of the Left: The Mujahedin al-Khalq." He was rebutted by the IPC's Clare Lopez for vilifying MEK: "While the MEK's wartime actions [attacking Iran during the Iran-Iraq war] undeniably alienated some Iranians, the group's survival and ability to organize itself, and collect and disseminate key intelligence about Iran's top-secret nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction programs clearly attest to an extensive base of support inside the country today. The MEK's broad level of support among the Iranian Diaspora is obvious in regular and large-scale demonstrations, for instance, in New York City to protest the September 2005 appearance of Iran's terrorist president [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad at the United Nations and on January 19 in Washington, DC to urge referral of Iran to the UN Security Council, where seas of hundreds of waving placards with photos of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are always prominent features..[7]"
Beating the war drums: Iran Policy Committee advocating regime change in Iran
In 2005, AIPAC and related zionist organisations in the United States stepped up their lobbying efforts to obtain "regime change" in Iran and the dismantlement of the Iranian nuclear programme. As part of this effort, the Iran Policy Committee was created, and Raymond Tanter is listed as the organization's founder and co-chair. He is often the public face of IPC and has stated in public that:
- the United States should pursue a policy of "regime change" in Iran;
- the United States should remove select Iranian armed groups from its "terrorist organization list";
- the United States should neutralize or eliminate the Iranian nuclear program.
The principal way IPC propagates its views is by:
- appearing in endless US Congressional hearings;
- generating a stream editorials that are placed in the Op-ed pages of mainstream newspapers;
- giving interviews to news organizations that are sympathetic to IPC's objectives; and
- endorsing Iranian groups opposed to the Iranian theocracy.
Target Iran
The majority of the content on IPC's website is written by founder Raymond Tanter. In March 2010 Tanter issued a "briefing" which reiterated IPC's standard "recommendations" for the US government with regard to Iran. According to Tanter, the US should support opposition groups in Iran along with continuing "tough" sanctions and providing "covert support" in order to aid the "Iranian people" in deposing the Iranian government:
- Research indicates that it would be in the U.S.'s interest for Washington to remove restrictions on the Iranian opposition (e.g., by removing the MEK and NCRI from the list of terrorist organizations), while imposing tough, comprehensive, and targeted sanctions. As for America's part, Mr. Tanter affirmed that Washington can play a vital role in helping the Iranian people to depose the regime by providing rhetorical and covert support to the Iranian opposition movement without having to resort to external regime change as in the takedown on Saddam Hussein in Iraq.[8]
Ties to Iraqi National Congress
In September 2010, a LobeLog investigation revealed that IPC has shared an address, accountants, and some staff with multiple organizations that either fronted for or had direct ties to Iraqi conman Ahmad Chalabi's[9] INC which furnished much of the bogus intelligence that neoconservatives used to garner support for the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
- It appears that many of the same people who misled the U.S. into a disastrous war with Iraq are now attempting to do the same in Iran. And they're doing it with very much the same game plan, and even doing it from the same little town house at 911 Duke St. in Arlington, Virginia.[2]
- Raymond Tanter - Founder and co-chair
- Clare M. Lopez - Executive Director (Also a senior intelligence analyst at Hawkeye Systems, and a former CIA operative)[10]
- James Akins
- Bill Cowan (CEO of private military corp the WVC3 Group, Inc.)
- Ali Keshavarzi
- Paul Leventhal
- Neil Livingstone
- R. Bruce McColm
- Thomas McInerney - Chair of IPC's Advisory Committee[11]
- Charles T. Nash
- Edward Rowny (Lieutenant-General)
- Paul E. Vallely
US Congressmen/Senators promoting IPC
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
- Bob Filner – (D, CA)
- Tom Tancredo – (R, CO)
- Dennis Moore – (R, KN)
- Ted Poe – (R, TX)
- Kay Bailey Hutchinson – (R, TX)
- James Talent – (R, MS)
- Rick Santorum
- Joseph Lieberman
European Parliamentarians promoting IPC
Featured Iranians
- Mujahedeen-e Khalq
- AIPAC - Tanter is a scholar at the Israel lobby group's thinktank WINEP
- Committee on the Present Danger
- Council on Foreign Relations
- National Council of Resistance of Iran
- Nuclear Control Institute (hosts the only web presence of IPC, and shares some principals).
- Strategic Policy Consulting
- Iraqi National Congress
- British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom[15]
Other resources
- Hawkeye Systems
- WVC3 Group, Inc.
- Freedom Support Act (HR 282) – IPC and its supporting Congressmen are pressing for HR 282, and it will likely have the same effect as the Syria Accountability Act, in essence, imposing a US embargo on the country.
- Alliance for Democracy in Iran (ADI)
- Iran Democracy Foundation (IDF)
- Iran Freedom Foundation (IFF)
- Iran Freedom Foundation (Maryland)
External Links
- Jim Lobe, "Iran War Drums Beat Harder", InterPress Service, Feb. 11, 2005.
- "Iran policy group outlines new approach in dealing with Tehran", Iran Focus, Feb. 13, 2005.
- Press Release, "Members of Congress, Iran Policy Committee Meet to Discuss U.S. Policy Options for Iran", April 7, 2005.
- Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, "Let's Rethink What We Wish For…", Payvand News, April 14, 2005. (discusses significance of the Congressional meeting and why the MEK has been removed from the list of terrorist organizations).
- Barbara Slavin, "Iran's 'terrorists' helped disclose nuke program", USA Today, April 14, 2005. Discusses another IPC rumination: "Ray Tanter, a Middle East expert on the National Security Council under President Reagan, said the United States should use the MEK to try to destabilize Iran's government before it acquires nuclear weapons".
- Bill Samii, "Iran opposes US moves", AsiaTimes, April 26, 2005.
- Tom Barry, Iran Freedom and Regime Change Politics, Right Web, 19 May 2006.
- ^Ali Keshavarzi, For progress in Iran, take groups off U.S. terror list, MySanAntonio.com, 28 May 2006.
- Web: www.iranpolicy.org
- Address:
- 3700 Massachusetts Ave. NW
- Suite L-34
- Washington, DC 20016
- Office: (202)249-1142
- Fax: (202)249-1143
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Iran Policy Committee, Mission Statement, Accessed 21-March-2009
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton, "Neocon Iran Policy Committee Tied To Disgraced Iraqi National Congress", LobeLog, 10 September 2010
- ↑ Iran Focus News Iran policy group outlines new approach in dealing with Tehran, Iran Focus, 14-February-2005, Accessed 23-March-2009
- ↑ Iran Policy CommitteeProfile, Rightweb, Accessed 23-March-2009
- ↑ Iran Policy CommitteeProfile, Rightweb, Accessed 23-March-2009
- ↑ Ali Gharib, "Skepticism about MEK's alleged Iranian nuke revelation", Lobe Log, 9 September 2010
- ↑ Iran Policy CommitteeProfile, Rightweb, Accessed 23-March-2009
- ↑ Raymond Tanter, "Can People-Power Defuse Iran's Nuclear Threat", MEFORUM Website, 10 March 2010, accessed on 17 September 2010
- ↑ Jane Mayer, "THE MANIPULATOR", New Yorker, 7 June 2004
- ↑ Claire M. Lopez, IAN biography, International Analyst Network, (Accessed: 9 December 2007)
- ↑ Ali Gharib, "Skepticism about MEK's alleged Iranian nuke revelation", Lobe Log, 9 September 2010
- ↑ U.S. Policy Options for Iran Document, Iran Policy Committee, New York Times, 10-February-2005, Accessed 23-March-2009
- ↑ Iran Policy Committee, IPC Scholars and Fellows, Accessed 23-March-2009
- ↑ Iran Policy CommitteeProfile, Rightweb, Accessed 23-March-2009
- ↑ BPCIF, "Links", British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, accessed on 21 December 2010


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lawn tennis cartoon
Tennis Row-After Bhupathi,Bopanna declines partnering Peas ?
The All India Tennis Association seems to be adamant about sending Leander Peas and Mahesh Bhupathi only as Lawn Tennis Doubles Partner for the London Olympics,while Bhupathi has declined partnering Peas as they do not share healthy personal relation and Mahesh Bhupathi feels like it has happened in the past , even in this Olympics the doubles would not do wonders. Rohan Bopanna has also declined partnering with Peas , attracting chances of 2 years of ban for both Bopanna and Bhupathi for not listening to the AITA. Sania Mirza who may get a chance through wild-card entry is also interested in partnering with Bhupathi over Peas !
Whatever the reason may be but is it fair on the players' part to give importance to their personal differences over the nation ? Who Leander Peas personally is, or, for that matter, Bopanna ,Bhupathi or Sania are has nothing to do with the fact that all of these are Top Indian Lawn Tennis Players and it is their prime duty to think of National Interest first. They can fetch the nation medals easily if they forget their personal differences (at least for the Olympics) and play for the nation !


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BlackBerry has always touted its mobile devices as secure. But now it plans to make them "more secure" by acquiring a German company that specializes in voice encryption.
BlackBerry will acquire Secusmart GmbH, which offers encryption systems to scramble voice calls, and also data communications. The company was silent about the details of the transaction, except to say it hinges on regulatory approvals.
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The company also announced a plan to automatically scan Android apps selected for download by BlackBerry smartphone users. BlackBerry Guardian already combines automated and manual app analysis with Trend Micro's Mobile App Reputation Service, and continuously monitors apps in the BlackBerry World online store. Starting with the release later this year of the square-shaped BlackBerry Passport "phablet," Guardian will autoscan any Android app that the device downloads from any source. Suspicious apps are flagged, and the user can cancel the installation or go forward with it. [CrackBerry has a pre-release hands-on with the Passport.]
BlackBerry and Secusmart had already been dating. In 2013, they collaborated to create SecuSUITE for BlackBerry 10, which uses a special SD card - carrying Secusmart's crypto engine and keystore -- that slots into a BlackBerry 10 smartphone. SecuSUITE exploits the Balance feature in the BlackBerry 10 operating system: Balance creates, in effect, two containers that keep separate a user's personal information and data, such as family photos and private email, and corporate email, apps, and their data. Using SecuSUITE, an IT group can ensure that all business data and communications, including VoIP calls and text messaging, are scrambled using 128-bit AES encryption.
One of the first customers for the new card was the German government. Earlier this year, Secusmart announced it was extending the SecuSUITE card to be used in desktop VoIP phone systems.
The BlackBerry press release on the acquisition was both terse and vague, giving few details of BlackBerry's plan for Secusmart, if it has one. A quote attributed to Secusmart Managing Director Hans-Christoph Quelle said "We see significant opportunities to introduce Secusmart's solutions to more of BlackBerry's government and enterprise customers around the world."
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We have a bathmat that we use to line the tub when we bathe our daughter. After the bath, we remove the mat and suction it to the shower wall (which is some sort of frosted glass)
I've noticed black mold growing on the suction cups.
I tried to use vinegar...sprayed it and tried to wipe off the mold. I tried a little bleach too.
Nothing seems to remove it.
Is there something else I should try?


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The Rental Assistance Program provides rent subsidies for income qualified working families. This is a tenant based program where the tenant is subsidized, not the rental unit. The participant must find their own housing within the seven county service area (Upper Peninsula). This allows the participant to select a rental unit that meets their needs and the program requirements. The participant will be rquired to pay 30% of their adjusted gross income to the landlord and the Housing Authority will pay the remainder up to Fair Market Rent for that area. The rental unit must pass a Housing Quality Standards Inspection prior to leasing.
Sault Tribe Housing Authority recognizes that many needs cannot be met by the existing low-income rental program. This program was created to expand housing opportunities while meeting unique needs of Tribal families, thus providing rental assistance off trust land. The funding for this program is limited. We will be able to assist the family for a maximum of two years.


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Right now the situation for developers of minor operating systems seems somewhat bleak. Windows and the Unixes compete in the server world, and Windows and MacOS X compete on the desktop. Linux even gets ported to every embedded device, leaving few niches for the hobbyist or sidelined operating system developer. Some have even gone so far as to say that New Operating Systems Won't Stand a Chance. As anyone who reads OSNews can tell you, however there are a wealth of new systems with new ideas that just aren't taking off. Given all these new ideas some – like capability security from EROS for example – should be good enough to catch on, so why aren't they?
There are many intertwined reasons for this phenomenon, and a good place to start looking at them is the duality of opposites between operating system standards – POSIX most prominent among them – and innovative, revolutionary ideas. One the one hand, implementing a standard such as POSIX gives a new operating system a leg up and a library of working or partially working software, always a boon to an OS looking to build a userbase. On the other hand, the real gain of many revolutionary ideas like orthogonal persistence (definition: making RAM persistent by writing it to disk at checkpoints rather than using a filesystem to permanently store data) can only come from breaking compatibility with these standards and with mainstream computer use, isolating the project in question! If we ever hope to go beyond Unix and Windows a solution must be found so that new systems can do their own thing without cutting themselves off from the rest of the world.
The Unununium project found an interesting way to handle this that actually helps solve a couple of other issues, too. Rather than require that all programs for their operating system be written in a compiled language like C and link to their system calls to start with, they're building a Python interpreter that can talk to the OS. This will render any standard Python code which doesn't link to special operating system features or other software (a sizable minority) nearly instantly portable, irrespective of the fact that they implement that orthogonal persistence I was talking about above.
The next largest problem for new operating systems is, of course, hardware driver support. Thanks to fragmentation and disagreement in the OS community every new system must over years of work laboriously build its very own unique library of drivers to drive the very same hardware everyone's already using on more mainstream operating systems! Some people think Linux is slow to gain hardware support, but at least it eventually does. Most hobby and academic projects can expect to be abandoned before they gain enough driver support to even match Torvalds's kernel.
Here, at least, there is an apparent solution: a standard interface for device drivers to talk to kernels with. The problem is that it was tried and Project UDI's efforts at a Unified Driver Interface failed to be adopted by anyone with enough political clout or driver support to count. Even the companies that created, funded and poured effort into UDI haven't actually adapted their operating systems to use it. The F/OSS software community doesn't support it either, as when the debate about a driver API/ABI for Linux came up on Slashdot a month or two ago, the overwhelming opinion was that not forcing drivers to link to the kernel sources would lead to too many proprietary drivers! This sort of attitude might work for a system with Linux's following, but no new OS is going to gain any support by forcing manufacturers or even other hobbyists and researchers to rearchitect their hardware drivers for each new, quirky kernel they want to run them on. UDI may not "benefit the Free Software movement", but for those of us who hope to someday see our kernels running on real, everyday hardware it is a godsend. And just imagine if a major kernel like Linux or a BSD fork did support it, rendering many of its drivers usable under hobby system XYZ! UDI may be sponsored by proprietary software makers, even the latest "Great Satan" SCO, but it has reasonable technical merit and does the job it's intended to do. More hobby and academic kernels should be UDI-compliant.
Yet what peril even awaits those who can write or obtain device drivers? The lack of runnable software. Every operating system that is developed must always have every single program of new software ported to it, even its own development toolchain. Again, while standards like POSIX and other similarities to mainstream operating systems can make this work easier, it is still a major piece of work. The integration of interpreted and high-level languages into the userland of the OS also helps in this regard, but more needs to be done. Every operating system ports certain important pieces of software like its toolchain and usually some user stuff like a text editor as well, and we have tutorial websites like BonaFide OS Development and The OSFAQ Wiki. Put them together! When you port a piece of extremely useful or common software you think everyone else will support, write about how you did it so everyone can learn from your experience! I know I will, and this collaboration should help with the effort of getting a userland set up.
Of course these few ideas won't make the world an OSdevers paradise, but I humbly think they will help. Standardized device drivers will aid new OSes in picking up the hardware support they often desperately need, while high-level and interpreted languages at the basic levels of systems will provide a small but substantial software base to systems getting onto their feet. Finally, I'd love to see an effort to document how common, everyday programs can be ported to new operating systems, because we all know mucking about in the GCC source tree without a map is nobody's idea of fun.
About the author:
Eli Gottlieb is an operating system hobbyist whose pet kernel lives at Glider. He hopes he's helpful, or at least sparks off good dialectics in the comments.
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Placed 0.8-stable checkout info in footnote.
Latest stable release 0.7.3 (2008-07-06) and feature release 0.8.0 RC1 (2008-12-07)¶
Redmine releases can be found at RubyForge.
See the Changelog for details and RedmineInstall for installation instructions.
Latest source code¶
You can get the latest source code of Redmine from the Subversion repository hosted at Rubyforge.
This is the prefered way to get Redmine if you want to benefit from the latest improvements. By using the SVN repository you can also upgrade more easily.
The repository URL is: http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn
You can checkout the latest development source from the trunk with one of the following commands:
svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk redmine svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/trunk redmine
0.7 & 0.8 Stable¶
You can checkout the latest stable source with one of the following commands1:
svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.7-stable redmine-0.7 svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/branches/0.7-stable redmine-0.7
It will create a directory named redmine-0.7
and you'll be able to update your Redmine copy using svn update
in this directory.
If you get this error when trying to checkout the source:
"PROPFIND 200 OK" error
Please contact your network administrator and ask him to enable WebDAV extension in your proxy.
1 The 0.8-Stable can be checked-out by replacing 0.7
with 0.8
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Class::Gomor(3pm) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | Class::Gomor(3pm) |
Class::Gomor - another class and object builder
This module is yet another class builder. This one adds parameter checking in new constructor, that is to check for attributes existence, and definedness.
In order to validate parameters, the module needs to find attributes, and that is the reason for declaring attributes in global variables named @AS, @AA, @AO. They respectively state for Attributes Scalar, Attributes Array and Attributes Other. The last one is used to avoid autocreation of accessors, that is to let you declare your own ones.
Attribute validation is performed by looking at classes hierarchy, by following @ISA tree inheritance.
The loss in speed by validating all attributes is quite negligeable on a decent machine (Pentium IV, 2.4 GHz) with Perl 5.8.x. But if you want to avoid checking, you can do it, see below.
This class is the base class for Class::Gomor::Array and Class::Gomor::Hash, so they will inherite the following methods.
- $NoCheck
- Import it in your namespace like this:
use Class::Gomor qw($NoCheck);
If you want to disable cgCheckParams to improve speed once your program is frozen, you can use this variable. Set it to 1 to disable parameter checking.
- $Debug
- Import it in your namespace like this:
use Class::Gomor qw($Debug);
This variable is used by the cgDebugPrint method.
- cgCheckParams (hash ref, array ref)
- The attribute checking method takes two arguments, the first is user passed attributes (as a hash reference), the second is the list of valid attributes, gathered via cgGetAttributes method (as an array ref). A message is displayed if passed parameters are not valid.
- cgGetIsaTree (array ref)
- A recursive method. You pass a class in an array reference as an argument, and then the @ISA array is browsed, recursively. The array reference passed as an argument is increased with new classes, pushed into it. It returns nothing, result is stored in the array ref.
- cgGetAttributes
- This method returns available attributes for caller's object class. It uses cgGetIsaTree to search recursively in class hierarchy. It then returns an array reference with all possible attributes.
- cgBuildAccessorsScalar (array ref)
- Accessor creation method. Takes an array reference containing all scalar
attributes to create. Scalar accessors are stored in a global variable
names @AS. So you call this
method at the beginning of your class like that:
- cgBuildAccessorsArray (array ref)
- Accessor creation method. Takes an array reference containing all array
attributes to create. Array accessors are stored in a global variable
names @AA. So you call this
method at the beginning of your class like that:
- cgClone [ (scalar) ]
- You can clone one of your objects by calling this method. An optional parameter may be used to create multiple clones. Cloning will occure only on the first level attributes, that is, if you have attributes containing other objects, they will not be cloned.
- cgFullClone [ (scalar) ]
- This method is the same as cgClone, but will clone all attributes
recursively, but only if they are subclassed from Class::Gomor. So,
objects created with other modules than Class::Gomor::Array or
Class::Gomor::Hash will not be cloned.
Another thing to note, there is no catch for cycling references (when you link two objects with each others). You have been warned.
- cgDebugPrint (scalar, scalar)
- First argument is a debug level. It is compared with global $Debug, and if it is less than it, the second argument (a message string) is displayed. This method exists because I use it, maybe you will not like it.
Class::Gomor::Array, Class::Gomor::Hash
Patrice <GomoR> Auffret
Copyright (c) 2004-2015, Patrice <GomoR> Auffret
You may distribute this module under the terms of the Artistic license. See LICENSE.Artistic file in the source distribution archive.
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